“Limits have been pushed” – Vernon Subutex 3 by Virginie Despentes
“We’d hoped for more” – August by Callan Wink
“Staggeringly good” – Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
“The man’s a true legend” – My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay
“Beautiful, bittersweet” – The Summer of Her Life by Thomas Von Steinaecker & Barbara Yelin (trans. by John Reddick)
“Written with grace and candour” – Breaking & Mending by Joanna Cannon
“Not an easy read” – To Calais, In Ordinary Time by James Meek
On the Pile: June 2020
“Needs trigger warnings” – Coming Undone by Terri White
“There’s power in knowledge” – Mindfck by Christopher Wylie
“Find your motivation in truths not trends” – Outraged by Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles
“Deserves all of its plaudits” – Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
“A veritable cornucopia” – The Body by Bill Bryson
“An astoundingly assured and absorbing book” – Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine
“A light-weight page-turner” – The Burning Land by George Alagiah
“Needs to be a lot punchier” – Paul is Dead by Paolo Baron & Ernesto Carbonetti (trans. by Adrian Nathan West)
“Wow. Knockout” – Pew by Catherine Lacey
‘Treat yourself’ – Stoner by John Williams
“Complete and satisfying” – The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes
“A terrific little page turner” – Bog bodies by Declan Shalvey & Gavin Fullerton
“A very difficult read” – Girl by Edna O’Brien
“Very wonderful” – An Orphanage of Dreams by Sam Savage
“A page-turning, thought-provoking, dystopian read” – The Farm by Joanne Ramos
“Unreadable twaddle” – Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett
“Non-stop kookiness” – Man V Nature by Diane Cook
“A long dormant contagion of ugliness” – The Captain and the Glory
“Packs quite the punch” – Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (trans. Elisabeth Jaquette)
“Compelling and tense” – Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke
